Quote - > Quote - Awwww, you're so darn cute when you're condescending!

But this you should know: I have no use for temper here... I'm just debating. Sorry if it got you riled enough to sink deep into ad hominem territory.

 

See, you say you have no use for temper here, but yet your argument is laden with feelings and temperament.

No, really... I thought it was cute!

(you really have to stop assuming so much... ;) ).

Quote - It doesn't offend me at all. I know that people that leech exist. It's a fact of life.

Well, this is interesting.

Maybe I should explain. You see, I'm not your ordinary leech. I, dear madam, am a SuperLeech.

Please, allow me to show you the highlights of my leechiness:

• Hosted hundreds of freebies (gratis) for just over a year (the monthly bandwidth xfer averaged 150GB or so)
• Saved PoserPros from oblivion (by literally talking DAZ mgmt into buying it after Mehndi imploded)
• Set up the DAZ fora (most of the mods still there, I personally chose).
• Wrote the first D|S User Manual and all tutes therein (after Hernandez dropped the ball with naught more than a rough chapter outline)
• Contributed code and worked up the SDK for D|S
• Helped found Faeriewylde (by hosting the DB and maintaining its first server for as long as I was able)

...only two of those were for pay.

So, umm, not to be snide or anything, but: what exactly have you contributed since you arrived? You posted some stuff in the Gallery? Answered a few newbie questions? Please, show me what you can do, or have done.

Quote - However, engaging in socially offensive behaviors only damages your reputation here.

I apparently have no reputation, as evidenced by being declared a leech upon Poserdom. ;)

But my poor reputation aside - what is so socially offensive by pointing out that all may not be cherries and cream around here, and that perhaps a greater focus on community (vs. "money") is needed?

One would think that the only ones offended by that would be, well... merchants.

Quote - It just makes you look like you're ticked off that you can't get even more stuff out of people for nothing.

There go them nasty ol' assumptions again...

In short, you misread what and why I wrote what I did. What I meant (in detail) was that there should be more focus on tutorials, more focus on creating and distributing free stuff that isn't a naked promotion... more focus on community - instead of on, about, and always with... the store. I figure that I feel at least somewhat entitled - to the same benefits as any other ordinary member.

But heya - let me read along w/ the rest of the posts.

Oh, and thanks for further delineating your logical follies, but I don't think it was necessary or anything ;)

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